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Richard Salz writes:
> Folks interested in playing around with tagging ideas might want to
> recall what Interlisp did. A closing ] matches back to an opening
> [, or all the way to the toplevel if no match is found.
Not quite: A close ] matches all open (, but can be stopped short by
an open [. Open [ were rarely if ever used, but close ] were very
useful, e.g. at the end of a define:
(define foo
(lambda (x)
(cond ((eq x 3)(f x))
(t (y x]
where that ] saves, wait for it, _four_ keystrokes -- one ] instead of
five )!
> I don't believe it ever got widespread acceptance in the Lisp
> community.
Outside Interlisp, true AFAIK. Inside Interlisp, it saw a fair amount
of use, IIRC.
ht
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